Publications

·         A History of Feelings (London: Reaktion, forthcoming 2018).

·         The History of Emotions (Manchester: Manchester University Press, forthcoming 2017).

·         Pain: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press, 2017).

·         The Science of Sympathy: Morality, Evolution and Victorian Civilization (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2016).

·         Edward Jenner (Stroud: The History Press, 2015).

·         (editor) Pain and Emotion in Modern History (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

·         (editor) Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011).

·         A History of Attitudes and Behaviours toward Animals in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain: Anthropocentrism and the Emergence of Animals (foreword by Boria Sax; Lewiston, N.Y.: Mellen, 2009).

·         ‘Neurohistory’, Debating New Approaches in History, eds Peter Burke and Marek Tamm (London, Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018).

·         ‘Experiences’, A Cultural History of Medicine, vol. 5, ed. Jonathan Reinarz (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2018).

·         (with Stephanie Olsen) ‘Styling Emotions History’, Journal of Social History (forthcoming, 2017).

·         ‘The History of Emotions’, New Directions in Social and Cultural History, ed. Lucy Noakes (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2017).

·         ‘Hysteria or Tetanus? Ambivalent Embodiments and the Authenticity of Pain’, Emotional Bodies: Studies on the Historical Performativity of Emotions, eds. Dolores Martin Moruno and Beatriz Pichel (Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, forthcoming 2017).

·         ‘Bestiality in a Time of Smallpox: Dr Jenner and the “Modern Chimera”’, Writing Creaturely Lives, eds. Dominik Ohrem and Roman Bartosch (Houndmills: Palgrave, forthcoming 2017).

·         ‘Medical and Scientific Understandings’, A Cultural History of the Emotions, vol. 5, ed. Susan Matt (London: Bloomsbury, forthcoming 2017).

·         ‘Vaccination, Fear and Historical Relevance’, History Compass, 14 (2016).

·         ‘Hurt Feelings?’, Pain and Emotion in Modern History (Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014).

·         ‘The Affective Turn: Historicising the Emotions’, Psychology and History: Interdisciplinary Explorations, eds. Cristian Tileagă and Jovan Byford (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014).

·         ‘German Methods, English Morals: Physiological Networks and the Question of Callousness, c.1870-1881’, Anglo-German Scholarly Relations in the Long Nineteenth Century, eds. Heather Ellis and Ulrike Kirchberger (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2014).

·         ‘Four Stages of Cruelty? Institutionalizing Humanity to Animals in the English Media, c.1750-1840’, Mediale Konstruktionen, ed. W. Behringer (Studien zur Mediengeschichte, vol. 1, Korb: Didymos-Verlag, 2013).

·         ‘Species of Compassion: Aesthetics, Anaesthetics and Pain in the Physiological Laboratory’, 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, 15 (2012) <http://19.bbk.ac.uk&gt;.

·         ‘The Historical Animal Mind: “Sagacity” in Nineteenth-Century Britain’, Experiencing Animals: Encounters between Animal and Human Minds, eds. Robert W. Mitchell and Julie Smith, (New York: Columbia University Press, 2012).

·         ‘The End of Anthropocentrism’, Anthropocentrism: Humans, Animals, Environments, ed. Rob Boddice (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2011).

·         ‘The Manly Mind? Re-visiting the Victorian “Sex in Brain” Debate’, Gender and History, 23:2 (2011): 321-40.

·         ‘Vivisecting Major: A Victorian Gentleman Scientist Defends Animal Experimentation, 1876-85’, Isis, 102:2 (2011): 215-37.

·         ‘The Moral Status of Animals and the Historical Human Cachet’, JAC: A Journal of Rhetoric, Culture and Politics, 30:3-4 (2010).

·         ‘In Loco Parentis: Public School Authority, Cricket and Manly Character, 1855-62’, Gender and Education, 21:2 (2009) 159-72.

·         ‘Forgotten Antecedents: Entrepreneurship and the Social in History’, An Introduction to Social Entrepreneurship: Voices, Preconditions, Contexts, ed. Rafael Ziegler (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Press, 2009).

·         ‘Manliness and the “Morality of Field Sports”: E.A. Freeman and Anthony Trollope, 1869-71’, The Historian, 70:1 (2008) 1-29.